Dear Ms. Kantra:
Sea Witch is a departure from the paranormals that I prefer. It’s the real world with a paranormal aspect instead of fully developed alternate reality. This type of paranormal is usually not my favorite but really worked in this situation. I’ve not read a lot of Kantra [...]

Dear Ms. St. Claire:
This is the 7th installment in the BulletCatcher series comprised of five books and two novellas. Generally, I’ve liked each one of the installations. A lot of the times I think how well I like one of these books depends on how well I respond to the main characters.
Then You [...]

Dear Ms. Stuart,

I was one of many readers impressed with the first novel in your “Ice” series, Black Ice. I sometimes have problems with the power differential between your heroes and heroines, and though Black Ice was no different in that respect, the hero and heroine were nonetheless compelling, as was their relationship.
The [...]

Dear Ms. Spencer-Fleming
As I blogged a couple of days ago, this series has been a long time favorite of friend and fellow reader, Keishon. I trust Keishon’s judgment quite a bit. She’s led me to read some wonderful mystery authors. However, I long held back from reading this series because [...]

Dear Ms. Brennan:
I bought this book because I’ve been wanting to read you for a long time but never got around to it. I actually have no reason because I think I even have received a few of your books for free. I think I believed that your books were [...]

Dear Ms. Crandall:
You are a new to me author. I do love a good romantic suspense but I’ve often found the balance between the two to be somewhat lacking. Either the book has really good romance but the suspense is light or the suspense is very good but the romance is [...]

Updated to add, Brenda Novak’s auction for diabetes ends in just a few days.
Dear Ms. Novak:
This is my first Novak book and I am happy to say it won’t be my last. I’ve been fortunate to read some good romantic suspense released this month and yours was right up [...]

Dear Ms. Brand,
I’ve been on a WWII kick the last few weeks which is what made me focus on the blurb for “Blind Instinct.” The heroine obtains a Nazi codebook that’s going to lead to all kinds of secrets and threats to her life. This is what brings her together with the hero as [...]

Dear Ms. Stewart:
I was really grateful to find your book on my doorstep. I admit that I had stopped buying your books when they went to hardcover because of cost and then I would forget to buy the book when it came out in paperback. This is kind of sad on my [...]

I have 20!! copies of this great hardcover to giveaway. Drop a comment and let me know why you are interested in reading this book.
Dear Ms. Rose:
Congratulations on going hardcover. It’s a tough time to make the move, what with the cratering economy and all. Even before [...]

Dear Mrs. Lovelace,
When I’ve had a bunch of disappointing books in a row, I know I can turn to you to pull me out of my rut. Whether it’s a historical (which you don’t seem to write much anymore) or contemporary or romantic suspense, you generally hit the spot and give me [...]

Dear Ms. Stuart,
Fire and Ice is the fifth and (if I’m not mistaken) final book in your Ice series, which features the agents of a ruthless spy organization known as the Committee. This one is all about the flamboyant Reno, Taka’s younger cousin.
Back in the third book, Ice Blue, [...]

Dear Mrs. Butcher,
A friend of mine recommended this book as one in which there isn’t too much gratuitous violence. Since I loathe play-by-play descriptions of the evil people can do to each other, I paid attention and noted the title. As she said, it isn’t so much a slice by slice commentary of what was [...]

Dear Ms. Melton:
You are a new to me author and I had heard good things about you so I was happy to try you out. While this book didn’t work for me, I am still interested in reading other books by you, either future or past works. The main reason that I struggled [...]

Dear Mrs Duvall,
I’ve got to say this is one of the more unusual suspense novels I’ve read lately. There’s not an ex-Navy Seal, sheriff, or former black-ops member of any kind in sight. No mafia hit men, billionaire’s daughter in danger or any of the other standard operating procedures for romance suspense novels in the [...]

Dear Ms. Kendall:
I can’t recall if I have ever read a book by you before so this might be my first of yours. It was a very uneven ride, but there were enough good aspects that I would definitely read you again.
Avy Hunt is an art recovery agent for ARTemis. She breaks the [...]

Dear Ms. Clare:
I admit to having some reservations about starting this book because I had a real hard time with the heroine in Hard Evidence. However, the gritty and realistic feel that emanated from the pages of this book were captivating and made the book hard to put down. I read that you [...]

Dear Ms Freethy,
Romantic suspense usually isn’t my bag. I hate books with sadistic serial killers who lovingly anticipate their next kill - generally the heroine who has to pull a TSTL moment to get the plot where it needs to be - or who insist on remembering their last one. And ex-cops, ex-SEALs, ex-’name [...]

From the Washington Post, the Short Stack blog recently posted their favorite love stories as listed below;
Classics and Old Chestnuts
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy. A married woman looks for love in forbidding St. Petersburg.
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh. Charles plans to divorce his wife so that he can marry Julia.
The Charioteer, by Mary Renault. A [...]

Dear Ms. Janzen:
This is the 8th book in the Steele Street series featuring fast cars and the military operatives who love them. While Cutting Loose has your trademark features such a special vehicle with a cute nickname: Charlotte, the Harlot, a Shelby Mustang Cobra GT500KR. It has the special agent/Steele Street chop shop [...]

Dear Ms. Sala:
You are another “new to me” author. I may have read you in your category iteration, but not in a long, long time. Cut Throat is apparently the second of in a series of books featuring Cat Dupree, a bounty hunter. The story was at its strongest during the action [...]

Dear Ms. Stuart,
Black Ice is my favorite of all your books — the ones I’ve read, that is. You have a huge backlist and I have not come anywhere near reading them all, but I’ve read several of your most popular titles, including A Rose at Midnight, To Love a Dark Lord, Moonrise, Nightfall, [...]

Dear Ms. Stuart,
The latest book in your Ice series, Ice Storm, opens with a bang. Literally. In a prologue set sometime in the past, we are introduced to nineteen-year-old the heroine this way:
Mary Isobel Curwen had never shot a man before. She stood there, numb, unmoving. She’d never fired a gun before, [...]

Dear Ms French,
Once again we’re back on the secluded Chesapeake island of Tawes where they have their own way of doing things. Island Justice, they call it. And once again the heroine is told from almost the beginning of the book that evil lurks on the island. Well, the locals sure aren’t kidding about [...]

Dear Ms French,
Having read and enjoyed several of your previous historical novels, I was keen to see how you’d handle contemporary romantic suspense. Would there be a good balance of romance and suspense? Could I figure out who dunnit by the end without it being too easy? And would it hold my interest since [...]

Dear Ms. Sheedy:
Family dynamics are always rife with inherent conflict. You use the theme again in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye to good effect. While KTG was much more romantic than the first book I read, Without A Word, and while the suspense was strong, I thought that the ending was almost too pat with [...]

Dear Ms. Rose:
This may be a week of talking about under appreciated gems. You consistently put out strong suspense stories with an qually strong romance. I also appreciate the thematic approach to have your books.
Die for Me’s theme was families–the families that we create and the families we are born with. Regardless of [...]

Dear Ms. Martin:
I like romantic suspense and the description of the book which had a bit of the paranormal to it which can make an ordinary suspense a little more captivating. Unfortunately, the book started out with stereotypical characters and never deviated.
Autumn Sommers had a vision once which she ignored and it came true [...]

New York Times Bestselling Novelist Allison Brennan made her first sale in 2004 and quickly became one of the genres top selling romantic suspense writers. Since then she has gone on to publish 5 additional romantic suspense books and is contracted by Ballantine to write six more. Fear No Evil was released in [...]

Dear Ms. Stuart,
Summer Hawthorne, the heroine of the third book in your Ice series, is the curator for a Los Angeles museum that specializes in Asian art. She is also the owner of a blue ceramic bowl that her Japanese nanny entrusted to Summer just before she died. Summer's self-centered mother belongs to [...]